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Jul 25, 2021
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Jul 25, 2021
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30-minute radio program for July 27, 2021. The best part of a fiery and brilliant speech by journalist, essayist, activist, and prophet Chris Hedges . Hedges argues that sadism defines every aspect of American life, from the corporate-controlled popular culture to the politics to--especially--the harsh neoliberal-capitalist economic system. The interlocking systems all oppress the huge majority of Americans for the benefit of a tiny elite. Both political parties, including President Biden,...
Topics: sadism, neoliberalism, capitalism, popular rebellion
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Jun 21, 2021
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Jun 21, 2021
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30-minute radio program for June 29, 2021. Second of two parts. A fine, newly (re)discovered audio collage by Virtual Renderings / Chazk . One of his earliest works (2006) and one of his best. Mixing serious commentary, parody and satire, corporate propaganda, and highly relevant music, it explores American jobs, working conditions, the increasing hours and decreasing pay, the myth of upward social mobility, and related topics. Voices heard include those of Noam Chomsky, Michael Parenti, John...
Topics: neoliberalism, work, wages, capitalism, social class
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Jun 20, 2021
06/21
Jun 20, 2021
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30-minute radio program for June 22, 2021. First of two parts. A fine, newly (re)discovered audio collage by Virtual Renderings / Chazk . One of his earliest works (2006) and one of his best. Mixing serious commentary, parody and satire, corporate propaganda, and highly relevant music, it explores American jobs, working conditions, the increasing hours and decreasing pay, the myth of upward social mobility, and related topics. Voices heard include those of Noam Chomsky, Michael Parenti, John...
Topics: neoliberalism, work, wages, capitalism, social class
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Jun 13, 2021
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Jun 13, 2021
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30-minute radio program for June 15, 2021. In a new talk, Noam Chomsky gives the history of the Republican Party's vote-getting strategies over the past 50 years. These included racism plus pretending to believe in positions held by many working-class Whites: pro-gun-rights, anti-abortion, climate-change denial. Party leaders' actual core values remain advancing the interests of corporations and the rich. Not that the Democratic Party is much better. K.D. reads from Eve Ottenberg's article,...
Topics: Republican Party, Democratic Party, Biden, Corporations, Noam Chomsky
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May 29, 2021
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May 29, 2021
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30-minute radio program for June 1, 2021. George Carlin's address to the National Press Club on May 13, 1999. A little more restrained and more unified than Carlin's concert routines, the speech is packed with wit. humor. and Carlin's trademark iconoclasm. It's a 3-part satire on the degradation of language in America. Carlin targets first the b.s. of politicians, then the euphemisms loved by most citizens, and then the "politically correct" language of liberals. This talk--highly...
Topics: language, politicians, euphemism, George Carlin
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Apr 30, 2021
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Apr 30, 2021
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30-minute radio program for May 4, 2021. Noam Chomsky concisely and brilliantly dissects the U.S. economic system. He shows that it operates exactly in accord with the principles of neoliberal capitalism. Its function to increase the wealth and power of the plutocratic elite--"the Masters of Mankind," as Adam Smith called them--at the expense of everyone else. And he shows the role of the federal government in enabling and promoting the economic system's antidemocratic aims and...
Topics: economy, neoliberal, capitalism, Noam Chomsky
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Apr 16, 2021
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Apr 16, 2021
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30-minute radio program for April 20, 2021. Two features connected by the belief that one needs to organize, confront the Powers-That-Be, and radically change the system. (Minor "reform" will not do.) First we'll hear Jordan Brown 's short movie, Forget Shorter Showers . The film is based on a reading of a good essay by radical environmental activist Derek Jensen . Then part 2 of Jill Lepore 's article on the history of police forces, "The Long Blue Line." Lepore shows the...
Topics: police, environment, activism
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Apr 11, 2021
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Apr 11, 2021
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30-minute radio program for April 13, 2021. An excellent audio collage by Virtual Renderings , slightly condensed by me. It's a meditation on class warfare, the ruling elite's dislike of democracy, American exceptionalism, economic inequality, mind control, and the prescience of George Orwell. Voices heard belong to Howard Zinn, Michael Parenti, Noam Chomsky, historian Morris Berman, and Ken Nordine (himself a master of audio collage), among others. Includes dramatic readings from Orwell's 1984...
Topics: capitalism, democracy, economy, Orwell, Virtual Renderings
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Mar 26, 2021
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Mar 26, 2021
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30-minute radio program for March 30, 2021. In a humorous/satiric monologue, KD reflects on several current and other events, all connected to America at Easter-time. Plus a song by David Rovics. This is a replay (with minor emendations) of NWN #581, from April 2019. Some of the current events mentioned are now two years old. Because the discussion goes beyond the events to the larger issues they illustrate, the show holds up well (IMHO). Topics include secularization and commercialization of...
Topics: labor unions, supermarket, Notre Dame Cathedral, Edward Bernays, cigarettes, corporations, John...
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Mar 18, 2021
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Mar 18, 2021
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30-minute radio program for March 23, 2021. Nicholas Carr --author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing To Our Brains --in conversation with Ralph Nader . They explore the bad effects of the Internet--especially popular sites such as Facebook, Google, Instagram, and so on--on human learning, reasoning, knowledge retention, and critical thinking. One bad effect is millions of Americans who are easily manipulated and who remain unaware that they are being manipulated. The original...
Topics: Internet, smartphone, cognition, thinking, Nicholas Carr
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Mar 13, 2021
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Mar 13, 2021
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30-minute radio program for March 16, 2021. Celebrated NSA whistleblower EDWARD SNOWDEN explains the mass surveillance of Americans by means of their cell phones. He explains how both the government and Big Tech capture and use your data--how they record your every movement. And how they collude to prevent you from stopping all that data capture. The talk reveals Snowden to be, not only a brilliant technician, but a complex, humane and caring person. Snowden's talk is taken from an interview...
Topics: surveillance, NSA, CIA, Edward Snowden, cell phone, smartphones
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Mar 5, 2021
03/21
Mar 5, 2021
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Kenneth Dowst
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30-minute radio program for March 9, 2021. Variations on a theme. KD explores why the Powers-That-Be try to suppress the word "capitalism." Economist Richard D. Wolff explores the public's growing disillusionment with the U.S. economic system and explores the prospects for change. We'll hear also a song--intended to be apolitical--by the late Anne Feeney: "Winter, Go Away." One line of the song, though--which implies that winter is warmer in Texas--inspires a preface on this...
Topics: capitalism, Texas, Irish slavery, Richard D. Wolff, Anne Feeney
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Feb 13, 2021
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Feb 13, 2021
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30-minute radio program for February 16, 2021. Second of 2 parts. In a new interview (January 12, 2021), the eminent Progressive scholar and activist Noam Chomsky explores current political and economic conditions. And he explores what the American people should do now--with Trump out and Biden in--to begin restoring democracy and improving the lot of "the 99%." Here in Part 2, Chomsky focuses on the war on the working class waged by both major political parties--and how the Left can...
Topics: labor, workers, neoliberalism, democracy, class conflict, NAFTA, Noam Chomsky, Anne Feeney
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Feb 2, 2021
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Feb 2, 2021
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30-minute radio program for February 9, 2021. First of 2 parts. In a new interview (January 12, 2021), the eminent Progressive scholar and activist Noam Chomsky explores current political and economic conditions. And he explores what the American people should do now--with Trump out and Biden in--to begin restoring democracy and improving the lot of "the 99%." Here Chomsky blends an encyclopedic knowledge of politics and economics, an inclination to take "the long view" of...
Topics: labor, neoliberalism, democracy, class conflict, politics, Joe Biden, Noam Chomsky
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Jan 13, 2021
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Jan 13, 2021
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30-minute radio program for January 19, 2021. Last of 3 parts, An engaging and thought-provoking documentary on corporate-sponsored advertising in the 21st century. It explores advertising's ubiquity; its insidiousness; its devastating social, psychological, and environmental effects--and its role in perpetuating the most harmful aspects of corporate capitalism. This week's installment continues to explore the ecological devastation wrought by the trio of neoliberal capitalism, rampant...
Topics: advertising, capitalism, psychology, consumerism, environment
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Dec 11, 2020
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Dec 11, 2020
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ROBERT FISK, who died on October 20, was one of the finest foreign correspondents writing in English. For decades his beat was the Middle East. To mark his passing, we reprise one of his few appearances on New World Notes, in this installment from February 2019. Also featured is former foreign correspondent CHRIS HEDGES. Different in style, they are alike in their hatred of lies and propaganda, their command of recent history--and their disdain for Trump's presidency. Fisk discusses the war in...
Topics: propaganda, journalism, Robert Fisk, Chris Hedges, Putin, resistance, rebellion
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Nov 30, 2020
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Nov 30, 2020
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Reflections by KD on American toilet-paper shortages current and past--including the original one of 1973. Plus capitalism's high-dollar solution to the current one: give bidets as Christmas presents to everyone on your list. Yes, they actually said this. And David Rovics' 99-cent alternative. Plus a short, unusually upbeat talk by Chris Hedges and--to celebrate installment #666--a few words on the number of the beast. https://newworldnotes.blogspot.com
Topics: Chris Hedges, toilet paper shortage, supply chain, bidet, Pandemic Journal
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Nov 24, 2020
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Nov 24, 2020
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Kenneth Dowst
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A rousing, no-holds-barred new speech by the activist, essayist, and Pulitzer-winning journalist Chris Hedges, delivered in October 2020. Second of 2 parts. Corrected version. Hedges sees the engineering of public despair as a deliberate strategy of our country's real rulers, the corporate oligarchs. Alas, history shows that citizens in despair often turn to fascism, thereby only compounding their misery and the oligarchs' power. In Part 2, Hedges focuses on the rise pf "Christian...
Topics: Chris Hedges, fascism, capitalism, economy, police, Christian Right
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Nov 22, 2020
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Nov 22, 2020
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The MP3 files uploaded to this page were defective. Do not listen / download from this page. Here is the the new page with good links : https://archive.org/download/nwn-665-hedges-cultural-despair-2-b-192k ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A rousing, no-holds-barred new speech by the activist, essayist, and Pulitzer-winning journalist Chris Hedges , delivered in October 2020. Second of 2 parts. Hedges sees the engineering of...
Topics: Chris Hedges, fascism, capitalism, economy, police, Christian Right
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Nov 20, 2020
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Nov 20, 2020
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Kenneth Dowst
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A rousing, no-holds-barred new speech by the activist, essayist, and Pulitzer-winning journalist Chris Hedges , delivered in October 2020. First of 2 parts. Hedges sees the engineering of public despair as a deliberate strategy of our country's real rulers, the corporate oligarchs. Alas, history shows that citizens in despair often turn to fascism, thereby only compounding their misery and the oligarchs' power. In Part 1 , Hedges surveys the misery in which tens of millions of Americans now...
Topics: Chris Hedges, fascism, capitalism, economy, COVID-19, Democratic Party, media
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Nov 14, 2020
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Nov 14, 2020
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Kenneth Dowst
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Capitalism is a fatally flawed economic system that cannot be made to work well, argues economist Richard D. Wolff . One fatal flaw is its instability: for the past 300 years, capitalist economies have crashed every 4-7 years. We are now in the third crash of the 21st century, the worst since the 1920s. The COVID pandemic--and the right-on-schedule crash it triggered--make the system's failures undeniable, Wolff argues. Wolff is in fine form in these selections from an interview (of September...
Topics: Richard D, Wolff, Donald Trump, capitalism, economy, crash
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Nov 2, 2020
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Nov 2, 2020
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The celebrated Progressive historian, political activist, and professor Howard Zinn is profiled in this radio adaptation of the documentary film, You Can't Be Neutral On a Moving Train. Last of 3 parts. Part 3 covers the enthusiastic reception by some schools of Zinn's A People's History..., Zinn as playwright, and his activities to forestall the US invasion of Iraq. First, though, we'll hear President Trump (in October 2020) denouncing Zinn for destroying schoolchildren's patriotism. And some...
Topics: Howard Zinn, history, democracy, education, antiwar movement, Iraq, Gulf War II
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Oct 28, 2020
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Oct 28, 2020
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The celebrated Progressive historian, political activist, and professor Howard Zinn is profiled in this radio adaptation of the documentary film, You Can't Be Neutral On a Moving Train. 2nd of 3 parts. Part 2 covers Zinn's firing by Spelman College, move to Boston University, Vietnam-era antiwar activities, trip to Hanoi to return American POWs, his views on civil disobedience, and his targeting by the police and FBI. Of special interest in Part 2: extensive reflections by antiwar activist Fr....
Topics: Howard Zinn, history, democracy, Vietnam War, Civil Rights movement, antiwar movement, Vietnam War,...
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Oct 23, 2020
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Oct 23, 2020
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The celebrated Progressive historian, political activist, and professor Howard Zinn is profiled in this radio adaptation of the documentary film, You Can't Be Neutral On a Moving Train. Part 1 covers Zinn's impoverished early life in NYC; his early disillusionment with the police; and his experiences as a shipyard worker, Air Force bombardier in WWII, graduate student, and left-leaning white professor in a conservative Black college in the South as the Civil Rights movement took hold. All these...
Topics: Howard Zinn, history, democracy, World War Two, Spelman College
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Oct 8, 2020
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Oct 8, 2020
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Selections from The Firesign Theatre's 1970 classic, "Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers." Masters of irony, parody, travesty, and sound effects, Firesign created radio dramas satirizing a nation unable to tell reality from the nonsense on TV--nonsense concocted by prostitute politicians and corporate greedheads. The perfect program for the 2020 election campaigns! The plot (such as it is): Flipping TV channels late at night, retired actor George Leroy Tirebiter finds dreck...
Topics: election, campaigns, movies, popular culture, Firesign Theatre
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Oct 5, 2020
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Oct 5, 2020
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A classic audio collage by Chazk / Virtual Renderings, condensed a bit by KD. It explores the root of today's devastating social, economic, and environmental problems: Western civilization's out-of-touch-ness with the natural world. American Indians provide better examples of how to thrive in the world. Highlights of Part 2 include Prof. John Mohawk on European vs. Indian views of nature; Toby Hemenway on why the development of grain agriculture was a calamity for humanity and the natural...
Topics: indigenous cultures, American Indians, agriculture, ecology, Chazk, Virtual Renderings
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Sep 30, 2020
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Sep 30, 2020
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A classic audio collage by Chazk / Virtual Renderings, somewhat condensed by KD. It explores the root of today's devastating social, economic, and environmental problems: Western civilization's out-of-touch-ness with the natural world. American Indians provide better examples of how to thrive in the world. Included: the greatest Navajo insult, why hunter-gatherers lived longer and better than farmers, and other interesting ideas. The piece blends commentary by indigenous people and...
Topics: indigenous cultures, American Indians, agriculture, ecology, Chazk, Virtual Renderings
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Sep 22, 2020
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Sep 22, 2020
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Living in a collapsing empire is no fun at all. The elites plunder the metropolis, public institutions fail, and politics become nearly meaningless. Both journalist Chris Hedges and propaganda expert Mark Crispin Miller share some good insights on the subject. And just as you suspect, they are not talking about ancient Rome or the USSR but about the United States in the Fall of 2020. http://newworldnotes.blogspot.com Many thanks to Richard D. Wolff's Economic Update program for his interview...
Topics: politics, economics, empire, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, Chris Hedges, Mark Crispin Miller
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Sep 13, 2020
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Sep 13, 2020
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KD explores some popular nonviolent rebellions that nobody saw coming--such as the "Arab Spring" and Occupy (both 2011)--and draws parallels to today's popular rebellion against the racist violence of police. Then the young Howard Zinn, in a debate from 1971, argues that nonviolent mass protests have ALWAYS been necessary in the U.S. to compel the System to change. Zinn was defending in advance a massive protest against the Vietnam War, which was then being planned for Washington,...
Topics: protest, rebellion, nonviolence, Vietnam War, Howard Zinn, Black Lives Matter, police
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Sep 8, 2020
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Sep 8, 2020
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Ex-cop, investigative journalist, activist, and prophet Michael Ruppert (1951-2014) was quirky, controversial ... and very often right. In this interesting monologue, he explains why Western industrial civilization is unsustainable and beginning to collapse--and what Americans can do to weather the transition. Surprisingly, he ends on a note of optimism. From Chris Smith's 2009 film, Collapse . Previously broadcast, in December 2012. This current upload (NWN #653) is the installment's first...
Topics: economics, collapse, Western civilization, capitalism, Michael Ruppert
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Jul 21, 2020
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Jul 21, 2020
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A fine recent audio collage--the latest released (March 2018) by Virtual Renderings / Chaz K. Not previously broadcast on New World Notes . Second of two parts. Condensed a bit by KD. The heart of Part 2 is a somewhat comic story, told by a young witch (Kirsten Hal), of her partially successful attempts to communicate with a rosemary plant. In counterpoint to this are words by herbalists, social critics, and others on the complexity of the plant world, the inability of logic alone to explain...
Topics: ecology, plants, herbalism, botany, plant communication, rosemary
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Jul 19, 2020
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Jul 19, 2020
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Kenneth Dowst
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A fine recent audio collage--the latest released (March 2018) by Virtual Renderings / Chaz K. Not previously broadcast on New World Notes . First of two parts. Condensed a bit by KD. It's an intriguing mix of parts of lectures and interviews, music, dramatic readings, and whatnot on this theme: With much of Western Civilization and corporatocracy proving unsustainable and inhumane, we need to re-develop our understanding and appreciation of natural ecology. In particular, we need to appreciate...
Topics: ecology, plants, trees, green, herbalism, botany
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Jun 15, 2020
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Jun 15, 2020
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Another tribute--our fifth--to the spoken-word art of late-night radio great Jean Shepherd. This week we celebrate not Shep the satirist and social critic but Shep the master storyteller. He tells of two tornados he witnessed: the first as a young teenager in the 1930s, the second as steel-mill worker in the 1940s. The stories are fascinating and humorous accounts of one of the oddest and most unpredictable forces of nature. They are also a fine look at small-town life in the Depression-era...
Topics: Jean Shepherd, tornado, Midwest, steel mill
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Jun 7, 2020
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Jun 7, 2020
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Kenneth Dowst
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Critical reflections on current events--particularly the protests following the George Floyd murder. And on the campaign names of politicians, the Bushes of Connecticut, America's dirty secret (social class), how to tell your Andover from your Exeter, Joan Didion, government by executive order, the insane clown posse in the White House, Episcopalians vs. Pharisees, and even some praise for the Governor, His Excellency Ned. Yes, OF COURSE it's all related! newworldnotes.blogspot.com New World...
Topics: Donald Trump, Ned Lamont, Joan Didion, social unrest, social class, politicians, names
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May 25, 2020
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May 25, 2020
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30-minute radio program for May 26, 2020. A bouquet of this and that, not random but loosely structured. Features a fine talk ("Rebel Lawyers" 2019) by Mumia Abu-Jamal, two satires by The Firesign Theater (1968, 1969), and commentary by KD. The commentary focuses on corruption of language as a tool of the powerful, the sea of propaganda in which we all swim, the historical uses of potpourri, the unhappy similarities of 17th and (U.S.) 21st century responses to pandemics, and the...
Topics: pandemic, COVID-19, social control, propaganda, language, Mumia Abu-Jamal, COVID-19, social...
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Mar 10, 2020
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Mar 10, 2020
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30-minute radio program for March 24, 2020. Wry and satiric notes and comments on the coronavirus pandemic as it gains a foothold in Connecticut. Complementing KD 's chronicles are a new song by David Rovics , a classic poem by (and read by) William Carlos Williams , and commentary by progressive populist Jim Hightower . http:// newworldnotes.blogspot.com
Topics: coronavirus, COVID-19, class conflict, the Irish, capitalism, Democratic Party
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Feb 9, 2020
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Feb 9, 2020
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Kenneth Dowst
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30-minute radio program for February 11, 2020. Journalist Chris Hedges traces the rise of the Corporate State, the destruction of democracy, and the corporate plunder of society. And (in Par 2) he surveys successful examples of nonviolent popular rebellion. This week he discusses how corporations subverted democracy in the US since 1914. And he takes us to some of America's "sacrifice zones"--areas devastated by unrestrained corporate plunder. He concludes with a scathing critique of...
Topics: corporations, capitalism, economy, Democratic Party
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Jan 6, 2020
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Jan 6, 2020
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Kenneth Dowst
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30-minute radio program for January 12, 2021. Second of 3 parts, An engaging and thought-provoking documentary on corporate-sponsored advertising in the 21st century. It explores advertising's ubiquity; its insidiousness; its devastating social, psychological, and environmental effects--and its role in perpetuating the most harmful aspects of corporate capitalism. The video documentary was produced by the Media Education Foundation (2017) and narrated by communications scholar Sut Jhally....
Topics: advertising, capitalism, psychology, consumerism, environment
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30-minute radio program for January 5, 2021. First of 3 parts, An engaging and thought-provoking documentary on corporate-sponsored advertising in the 21st century. It explores advertising's ubiquity; its insidiousness; its devastating social, psychological, and environmental effects--and its role in perpetuating the most harmful aspects of corporate capitalism. The video documentary was produced by the Media Education Foundation (2017) and narrated by communications scholar Sut Jhally ....
Topics: advertising, capitalism, cultural history, consumerism
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Dec 17, 2019
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Dec 17, 2019
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Kenneth Dowst
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30-minute radio program for December 24, 2019. Part 2 of an intriguing audio tapestry woven by Robin Upton from Unwelcome Guests' archival material. It's a fine exploration of how the forces that run the world actually operate in practice. And an exploration of the propaganda they generate to pacify and mislead the people. Central to this tapestry is Richard K. Moore's fine essay, "Escaping the Matrix," read by Lyn Gerry. Woven around that are several other discussions that...
Topics: capitalism, imperialism, neocolonialism, The Matrix
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Dec 16, 2019
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Dec 16, 2019
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30-minute radio program for December 17, 2019 Another intriguing audio tapestry woven by Robin Upton from Unwelcome Guests' archival material. It's a fine exploration of how the forces that run the world actually operate in practice. And an exploration of the propaganda they generate to pacify and mislead the people. Central to this tapestry is Richard K. Moore's fine essay, "Escaping the Matrix," read by Lyn Gerry. Woven around that are several other discussions that supplement,...
Topics: capitalism, imperialism, neocolonialism, The Matrix
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Dec 3, 2019
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Dec 3, 2019
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Kenneth Dowst
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The late activist-essayist-novelist-historian Gore Vidal reads his "Open Letter To the Next President." I hope Elizabeth and Bernie are listening, for Vidal's "letter" is as timely now as it was when he spoke--shortly before the election of 2000. Vidal urges dismantling the out-of-control Pentagon and the National Security State, and he denounces Congress for serving the corporations rather than the citizens. Plus a clip from the movie Bob Roberts and some music by Bruce...
Topics: Gore Vidal, national security state, Pentagon, military, corporations, John F. Kennedy
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Nov 16, 2019
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Nov 16, 2019
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Kenneth Dowst
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30-minute radio program for November 19, 2019. A seasonally inspired alternative view of the European "settling" of the United States. Three views, in fact, ranging in tone from Jim Hightower 's wry humor to the Firesign Theater 's comic satire to Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 's matter-of-fact catalogue of horrors. Hightower tells of American settler-Indian feasts before the 1621 one in Plymouth. The Firesign Theater reenacts how the West was won. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz reveals many shocking...
Topics: Thanksgiving, North America, settlers. history, Indian Wars, genocide
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Nov 8, 2019
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Nov 8, 2019
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Kenneth Dowst
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30-minute radio program for November 12, 2019. An important and very listenable exploration of the meaning of "terrorism" and the many aspects of life affected by terrorist behavior. The exploration reveals remarkable similarities in the acts and goals of Al Qaeda, Western governments, the Fortune 500, and others. The backbone of the program is a brilliant talk professor John McMurtry gave just after 9/11 (2001). Interspersed with this are excerpts from talks by several other speakers...
Topics: terrorism, capitalism, John McMurtry, oil, Afghanistan, totalitarianism, banking
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Oct 27, 2019
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Oct 27, 2019
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Kenneth Dowst
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30-minute radio program for November 5, 2019. An important and very listenable exploration of the meaning of "terrorism" and the many aspects of life affected by terrorist behavior. The exploration reveals remarkable similarities in the acts and goals of Al Qaeda, Western governments, the Fortune 500, and others. The backbone of the program is a brilliant talk professor John McMurtry gave just after 9/11 (2001). Interspersed with this are excerpts from talks by several other speakers...
Topics: terrorism, capitalism, WTO, John McMurtry, neoconservatives, oil, Afghanistan
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Oct 13, 2019
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Oct 13, 2019
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Kenneth Dowst
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30-minute radio program for October 15, 2019. Award-winning independent journalist Dahr Jamail discusses aspects of the climate crisis--and how individuals can respond to it. Topics include melting glaciers, methane feedback loops, geoengineering, industrial capitalism, and indigenous vs. capitalist-consumer approaches to the world. We have much to learn from indigenous peoples, Jamail stresses, and we had better learn it fast. This is the Q&A session following Jamail's April 11 talk in...
Topics: ecology, climate change, Native Americans, glaciers, methane, indigenous
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Oct 7, 2019
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Oct 7, 2019
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30-minute radio program for October 8, 2019. Journalist GLENN GREENWALD revealed the story of Edward Snowden and the US government's secret spying on every American. Here Greenwald talks about Snowden and also about the government's surveillance of everybody, assault on civil liberties, and hypocrisy about leaks. And he talks about the disgraceful behavior of the US "mainstream" news media-- determined to SERVE those in power rather than to hold them accountable. With a brief...
Topics: Glenn Greenwald, Edward Snowden, surveillance, NSA, press, news media
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Sep 14, 2019
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Part 2: How Do We Respond? 30-minute radio program for September 17, 2019. For several years, independent journalist Dahr Jamail--who won awards for his coverage of the Iraq War and occupation--has been investigating the global climate crisis. His conclusions are based on both his personal observations around the world and also extensive interviews--with top scientists and with ordinary people already suffering from the effects of climate change. His new book is titled, The End of Ice. In April...
Topics: ecology, climate change, Native Americans
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Sep 10, 2019
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Part 1 : Denali, Fallujah, Australia 30-minute radio program for September 10, 2019. For several years, independent journalist Dahr Jamail--who won awards for his coverage of the Iraq War and occupation--has been investigating the global climate crisis. His conclusions are based on both his personal observations around the world and also extensive interviews--with top scientists and with ordinary people already suffering from the effects of climate change. His new book is titled, The End of...
Topics: ecology, climate change, Denali, war crimes, Iraq War, Great Barrier Reef, imperialism
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Sep 2, 2019
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30-minute radio program for September 2, 2018. Last of three parts. A very good talk by Progressive historian Howard Zinn, delivered in 2008. It deals with key themes in Zinn's writing (and social activism): social justice, war, economic power, the anti-democratic behavior of governments (including ours), propaganda, and the power of the people to organize and compel justice. Part Three (this week) is (IMHO) the finest part of Zinn's long talk. It begins with Zinn's moving and cogent rejection...
Topics: Howard Zinn, politics, war, democracy, social movements
